Another stupid question in the same survey:
What does this even mean? How do you “identify with a country”? It’s beyond nuts to ask such a question.
Incidentally, the list of countries they provide doesn’t even include the USSR, which is the country where I was born. Maybe pay attention to history instead of torturing words with the goal of extracting some particularly neoliberal essence out of them?
“How do you “identify with a country””
It’s for people that don’t like the country they live in (and/or romanticize the country they or their parents came from to a laughable degree).
Just on social media, the actress/singer Selena Gomez*, born in the US and who can’t speak or sing Spanish in an intelligible way** was whailing and carrying on about ‘her people’ being deported….
Girl, you’re not mexican, you’re a pocha. Accept that.
*I don’t know her music at all but she was good on the first season of ‘Only murders in the building’ (all I’ve seen of it).
**She’s in that supposedly awful movie about a trans drug lord and Spanish speakers can’t make heads or tails out of her Spanish dialogue/singing….
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